Project Manager

Location: Nationwide

Kelly Rail are looking for committed and dedicated project managers to join our Project team nationwide to deliver lineside Civils & Telecoms on the Rail infrastructure

In your role you will be responsible for:

• Leading allocated tasks effectively, through planning, allocation, and reporting of work in order to ensure successful delivery of the project/ plan.
• Ensuring compliance with contractual obligations and the achievement of the Project’s objectives.
• Maintain accountability for the cost, schedule, and technical performance of the programme. Anticipate and manage dependencies, risk, and opportunities in support of increase business performance.
• Attend client consultative meetings and site visits where required, ensuring that best practices and industry innovation is applied.
• Production and issuing customer progress reports
• Review and approve key supplier inputs.
• Monitor and control of all activities and costs, defining and implementing corrective actions.
• Collaborating and engage with other departments within the business where relevant.
• Prepare and maintain contract risk and opportunity plans and manage the associated contingency budgets.
• Develop and maintain key relationships with the customer and other external stakeholders.
• Ensure all employees, including suppliers have the appropriate rail/safety clearance to undertake activities at the customer facilities.

Essential Experience

• Project Management qualifications such as APMP or Prince 2.
• Experience of project and risk management.
• Excellent understanding of NWR rules and guidelines for work lineside.
• Experience of delivering lineside civils & telecoms projects.
• Ability to analyse schedule, cost data for impending difficulties, and clearly communicate to the Project Manager/Operations Manager.
• Management experience covering financial, commercial, engineering and project areas within the rail sector.
• Knowledge of NEC 3 contract management.
• Experience working within an engineering environment review and interpret technical information / engineering drawings.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills both written & oral.
• Experience of working within strict deadlines & to budget.
• Understand schedule interfaces & dependencies to produce various key milestones to be submitted for acceptance.
• Ability to work under own initiative and drive to deliver results.
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to prioritise workload according to others’ needs, whilst managing conflicting workloads & priorities
• You will have a ‘can-do’ attitude in all the work you deliver, ensuring it meets the needs of current and potential customers.
• You will have experience and appetite for self-development.
• Proactive work ethic, self-driven and flexible
• Ability to work within a team of diverse disciplines
• Adaptable to changing circumstances to meet customer demand
• Customer focused with the ability to put the customer above all others.
• Ability to communicate with a wide range of people at all levels, enabling excellent relationship building
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Managing key stakeholders - Build and develop client relationships.
• Commercial Awareness.
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills

Desirable Experience

• HNC/ HND / Degree in relevant engineering discipline or equivalent experience in rail and industrial control systems.

What's on offer for successful candidate?

• Competitive Salary

About Kelly Group:

Established in 1985 to support the emerging UK cable television market, Kelly Group has diversified to meet the needs of our clients. With over 35 years’ experience and customer service at the heart of our business, Kelly Group is renowned for building networks in collaboration with several major leading telecommunication service providers, delivering innovative multi-functional solutions - connecting people globally.

Kelly Group operate nationally with 40+ operational centres and deliver a full suite of services. From the initial planning, design, notification through to installation, final commissioning and maintenance of networks, Kelly Group deliver a ‘one-stop solution’ to meet the needs of our clients and delight their customers.

As a service provider, our workforce is our extended family, which is why we invest in their safety, training, careers, welfare, vehicles, and tools they need to deliver excellence. With a workforce of circa 3500, 40+ national operational centres, 4 training hubs and a fleet of over 2500 vehicles, Kelly Group are committed to developing an excellent team, a fair culture, and a safe working environment.

If you feel you have the required experience and want to further your career with a long-standing communications contractor, please apply.

Kelly Group Locations - London, Exeter, Southampton, Bristol, Colchester, Cardiff, Cambridge, Wellingborough, Norwich, Birmingham, Peterborough, Coventry, Leicester, Derby, Stoke-On-Trent, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, York, Preston, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Belfast, Dublin